curfew

Clearly the English word curfew comes from the French couvre feu. Do other languages have a similar 'lights out' concept and is it still signalled as (I think) in France with the chiming of church bells in the evening normally around 19.00?

In Arabic, it is حظر تجوال /hadhr tejwaal/ which means "wandering ban"

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In hebrew something similar, i can think of two things:
עוצר otzer which means wandering ban,
and there's the 'lights out' time, like in Harry Potter books where theyre not supposed to be wandering after certain hour - כיבוי אורות kibuy orot.

In Spanish it's toque de queda (The phrase itself makes little sense in modern Spanish 'cause it comes from old Spanish. It literally says something like ''touch of remaining'')

In Japanese you can say: 夜間外出禁止令 yakan gaishutsu kinshi rei (lit. law that forbids to go out at night); or you can say 消灯令 shoutourei (law that turns off the light). You can omit 夜間 when the curfew isn't during the night.